Virtual Office Hours

Stuck inside on a snow day but have urgent meetings with students or co-workers? Stay inside where it’s warm and hold virtual office hours online! Instructors can create a virtual sign-up sheet for students to view available hours and register for meetings and then meet the students online in a live webinar room off campus.

Sign-Up Sheet

You can use the Sign-up tool in Sakai to create an online sign-up sheet to list your availability for students to view and sign up for meetings–whether you decide to hold these meetings on or off campus is up to you! Some great features of the Sign-up tool include the ability to:

Create recurring meetings

List meetings available to multiple course sites

Keep track of attendance

Import calendar events into Outlook or Google calendar with an iCalendar file

NOTE: You will be prompted to install Blackboard Collaborate software the first time you try to join a room.

Within your webinar, you can share lecture slides and other applications and turn on your webcam for enhanced collaboration. You can also keep a room open for an extended time and use that same room for all of your office hours! Add Blackboard Collaborate (listed as Elluminate Live! Bridge in Sakai) to your site to get started. To create a webinar room within the tool: